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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. This story explores themes relating to what?
(a) Compassion and love.
(b) The war between the IRA and the British.
(c) The nature of imprisonment, preconception, and honor.
(d) Sin and degradation.

2. What do Pat and Meg talk briefly about when Monsewer leaves?
(a) The boarding house's expenses.
(b) One of the tenants Monsewer brought into the house.
(c) How well he runs the house.
(d) The prostitutes in the house.

3. How does the story begin?
(a) The actors walk solemnly onto the stage.
(b) The actors dance an Irish jig.
(c) Rock and roll music is heard.
(d) A narrator appears.

4. What do various characters say about the Soldier?
(a) He should be shown mercy.
(b) He should be fed.
(c) He should be put in a smaller cell.
(d) He should be hanged.

5. How does the officer quote a leader of the IRA?
(a) A noble cause must be served by noble men.
(b) A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
(c) A good man is hard to find.
(d) A leopard cannot change its spots.

Short Answer Questions

1. What serves as a transition into the first scene?

2. Why does Meg tell Teresa to stop thinking about this person's fate?

3. What is Monsewer doing as he comes in?

4. As he comes in, the Soldier does what?

5. Monsewer comes in, checking with Pat to make sure about what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Of what does the Soldier try to convince Meg?

2. What story does Pat tell, after the Soldier demands to know what he did to deserve this treatment?

3. What does the IRA officer come in and do?

4. What does the Soldier do when Teresa enters the room?

5. What is revealed about the Soldier?

6. What do Meg and Pat say about money?

7. About what is the article? How do the various characters react?

8. How do the other characters react, when Meg finishes her song?

9. What do Meg and Pat say about Monsewer's past?

10. How do Teresa and Meg feel about Monsewer?

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